THE ESSAYIST

    © Dennis Dodson, 2016

No one can hear me. Over the noise and dust of all the hard electioneering for the post of Presidential nominee. The Presidential campaign is exactly like that for any consumer item. Pick one Presidential nominee from among many. You choose.   Choose me – screams a presidential hopeful to a young, gun-carrying, evangelist Christian. […]

I think there must be something wrong with me Linus. Christmas is coming but I’m not happy, I don’t feel the way I’m suppose to feel. I just don’t understand Christmas I guess… I always wind up feeling depressed. Instead of feeling happy I feel let down.                                                                                     Charlie Brown, 1965.     “Daddy, is […]

    © Dennis Dodson, 2016

  “Touch the ground of New Mexico and you’ll never be the same.” D.H. Lawrence    Hot Roasted Chilies Santa Fe, New Mexico sits at 7199 feet above sea level on the foothills of the Sangre Mountains. It intersects the end of the Rocky Mountains and Northern Rio Grande Valley, which places it as the […]

X X © Dennis Dodson, 2015

x x © Dennis Dodson, 2015

No vision haunts America’s conscience more than the sight of street people… the irrational and anguish that grip so many of those individuals leap out during any encounter, whether in Washington or Albuquerque. Pete Domenici, Former Senator (R-NM)     It was the night before Christmas. I heard multiple loud sirens outside my window. I […]

“The old American Dream . . . was the dream of the Puritans, of Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard” . . . of men and women content to accumulate their modest fortunes a little at a time, year by year by year. The new dream was the dream of instant wealth, won in a twinkling by […]